February 2011

Final Space Shuttle Discovery Mission

February 25, 2011

For those of you who aren’t aware, yesterday was the final launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery. I was lucky enough to be able to watch the launch from the plane since we had DirecTV service on our flight. The launch left me wondering what’s become of our space program. When I was a kid [...]

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Building An Affiliate Website (websitehosting.com) – Part Two

February 16, 2011

Building An Affiliate Website – A Case Study With websitehosting.com – Part Two This is part two of my series on how to build an affiliate website, where I’ll be using websitehosting.com as a case study. In part one, I discussed how to get the basic site structure set up – by selecting a web [...]

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Wine Tour of Temecula, CA

February 16, 2011

Today was a day of firsts for me. It was my first time using Groupon, my first time taking a wine tour, and my first time in a party bus. A few days ago, my wife found a deal on Groupon for a half priced wine tour of Temecula. Temecula is a small town off [...]

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Building An Affiliate Website (websitehosting.com) – Part One

February 10, 2011

Building An Affiliate Website – A Case Study With websitehosting.com – Part One As promised, I wanted to make a post about what I’m going to do with Website Hosting in the first 60 days. Some of the discussion will be past tense, as I will be talking about a few things I’ve done already [...]

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Why I Paid $190,000 For The Domain Name websitehosting.com

February 7, 2011

A few days ago I closed on the biggest domain name purchase I’ve ever made. At the time of the transaction I ran the gauntlet of emotions: excitement, fear, pride, nervousness, vulnerability, happiness, and the list goes on… That’s because the purchase price, at $190,000, is enough to buy a nice house with. According to [...]

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Weight Loss Progress – Month One Update

February 6, 2011

I posted on Jan 10th that I wanted to lose some weight and I figured today would be a good time to report back on that. I strategically weighed myself this morning before pigging out for the Super Bowl get-together we had today. It turned out that was a good idea since I’m pretty much [...]

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Great Content and Long Tail Searches

February 4, 2011

This isn’t the first time I preached about how important quality content is for your website. In my opinion, if search traffic is important to you, then need to be adding large amounts of quality content to your website. Is it possible to build content light sites and still rank well for certain keywords? Sure, [...]

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Indian Wells – BNP Paribas Open Tennis Tournament

February 3, 2011

For those of you who know me, you know that I’m really into tennis. Over the past five years I’ve played A LOT of tennis and even joined a tennis club while I lived in the Cayman Islands. When I was a member of the club I played in several organized leagues, took weekly lessons, [...]

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JR Organics CSA – Week 4 Report

February 3, 2011

Today was our last pickup of our 4 week trial membership to JR Organics CSA. It was kind of sad knowing that we won’t be able to enjoy their great food much longer since we’re heading out of town pretty soon. Week 4 Box Contents: This week’s box contents included Lettuce, Broccoli, Arugula, Swiss Chard, [...]

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Dabbling in the stock market

February 2, 2011

I guess I need to start out by saying that the opinions expressed within are my own and by no means are a recommendation to buy stocks or options. You should consult a financial adviser before making any transactions. Thank you SEC. Now that that’s out of the way, I decided to start creeping back [...]

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